Phaselis

Ancient Cities in Turkey Phaselis Ancient City is located within the borders of Kemer town in Antalya province. Established by the people of Rhodes in the 7th century BC, Phaselis…

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Perge

Ancient Cities in Turkey Perga, Greek Perge, modern Murtina or Murtana, ancient city ofPamphylia, now in Antalya il (province), Turkey. It was a centre of nativeculture and was a seat of the worship of “Queen” Artemis, a purely Anatolian nature…

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Pergamon

Ancient Cities in Turkey Pergamum, Greek Pergamon, ancient Greek city in Mysia, situated 16 miles from the Aegean Sea on a lofty isolated hill on the northern side of the broad valley of the Caicus…

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Patara

Ancient Cities in Turkey Patara ( Lycia), later renamed Arsinoe (Ἀρσινόη), was a flourishing maritime and commercial city on the south-west coast of Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey near the modern small town of Gelemiş, in Antalya Province. It is the birthplace…

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